Bonn, Climate Change session April 2018, 1st report

This meeting, held April 2018 in Bonn, was for Civil Society members to discuss and reflect on climate change and human rights. The participants considered ways in which the states who had signed the Paris Agreement could be encouraged to deliver on their undertaking. This meeting was to prepare the strategies available. The Talanoa dialogue was employed. The indigenous peoples and the faith-based communities took part. The impacts of the efforts of each country were gamed with significant results.

Panel: Creating A Negotiator‘s tool-kit, 2017

On Monday 8th May2017, Brahma Kumaris, QUNO and Newcastle University co-organized a panel named: “A Negotiator‘s tool-kit: a range of powerful arguments to engage with busy Ministries on clear and concise reasons for urgent climate action.” The question to the panelists was: “How would you convince your ministry about taking urgent action in 5 minutes?”.

Report of side event

On the 16th of May 2016, Segolène Royale, the French minister for the environment, chaired the first meeting that followed the Paris Agreement in Bonn. The meeting had a number of targets, all aimed at facilitating the implementation of the agreements made at COP 21 in Paris. It was also a time of saying farewell to Christiana Figueres who was standing down as executive secretary of the UNFCCC.

Thinking from a different mindset to face climate change

The United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Bonn in June 2015. This side event was a panel discussion of people with considerable experience of the issues around climate change. It took place 2nd June in Bonn III (72).